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1847–1868

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Birth Date
18 June 1846
Death Date
5 October 1937
Gender
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Johanna Marie Mouritsen

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  • Her name is listed as "Johannah Marie Petersen" on her death certificate.  Her birth and death dates are confirmed by her death certificate and the inscription on her gravestone.

    The family sailed to America in 1859 on the ship William Tapscott.  The family consisted of: father, Lars, mother: Maren, and children: Johanna Marie,  Johanne, Maren, Martine and Mauritz. 

    The ship manifest shows their surname as "Mauritzen."

Robert F. Neslen Company (1859)

  • Age at Departure: 13

Traveled with

  • Maren Mouritsen (Age: 35)
  • Lars Mouritsen (Age: 33)
  • Mourits Mouritsen (Age: 10)
  • Mary Mouritsen (Age: 9)
  • Martine Martha Mouritsen (Age: 7)
  • Johanna Kristine Mouritsen (Age: 6)

Sources

  • 1880 Utah Census.
  • 1900 Utah Census.
  • 1910 Utah Census.
  • 1920 Utah Census.
  • Denmark, Baptisms, 1618-1923.
  • European Mission emigration records, Scandinavian Mission, 1852-1920.
  • Find a Grave (Website)
  • New York Passenger Lists, 1820-1957.
  • Petersen, Johanne Mariah, [Reminiscences], in Carrie Mouritsen Jones and Jerald Olean Seelos, comp. and ed., The Mourits Mouritsen Family [1982], 426.